Place for reporting bugs in Parrot 4.9
Please use the following template:

What version of Parrot are you running? (type "cat /etc/os-release" in terminal without the quotes)
Include version (e.g. 4.5), edition(e.g. Home),
and architecture (currently we only support
amd64)
What hardware are you running? (Machine Model/Brand, graphics card if display issue)
What method did you use to install Parrot? (Debian Standard / Debian GTK / parrot-experimental)
Configured to multiboot with other systems? (yes / no)
If there are any similar issues or solutions, link to them below:
If there are any error messages or relevant logs, post them below:

A user on Twitter reported this:
Upgraded Parrot 4.8 to 4.9 (4.8 installed in VMWare through an ISO file and upgraded by terminal) and lost drag n drop vmware feature, even reinstalling VMWare Tools.User had to install open-vm-tools-desktop to resolve this and wanted to share with us in case someone encounter this issue.

Add the bug report: gksu doesn’t work with calamares which disabled root account configuration. it was fixed in the code by using gksudo (as user suggested on twitter). Watiing for Palinuro to update it.

Hi this parrot version is sooooo buggy
1- I have ralink wifi adapter
It doesn’t work ! Why ?
Because parrot 4.9 haven’t firmware-ralink
Package

2- when I tenther it through my phone
I have never seen such bug in parrot that the tenther get closed by itself on the phone
Tried to tenther windows and worked but parrot 4.9 doesn’t work
So please consider to rebuild parrot 4.9 with the required drivers to be usable probably
also i tried connecting using wpa_supplicant and only log i get is Disconnected as my phone and windows can connect to the wifi oh and i have used calamares installer to install parrot 4.9

Fix for the menu: use gksudo instead of gksu. Root password problem (unexpected from installer)
Fix calamares installer causes non DNS problem when it was installed without internet connection
Update for anonsurf: Fix dnstool: wrong status detection and wrong /run/resolvconf path. It also support obfs4 bridge support which is under testing

Hey y’all, this issue has been bugging me from the time I started to use parrot. Each time I boot into parrot its like throwing a dice, am I going to have internet or not, so my issue is when I boot sometimes it just doesn’t give me WiFi for no reason and I have to reboot the distro multiple times for it to fix itself and that’s just annoying, so I’ve so far tried running ifconfig and for some reason it doesn’t show any of my cards.

This problem is the same in the live iso, sometimes you have WiFi other times you don’t

hi again …
i have installed parrot kde 4.9.1 with calamares installer once and with gtk one on the live boot menu
now the wifi works thank you parrot team
but anonsurf doesn’t work -_-
tried from menu and from terminal and tried to catch logs with sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep “tor”
only i get using tor in clear net
also tried sudo anonsurf start-bridge and the same any help?

2.open the directory where you downloaded the packages then open a terminal in the directory and run
Command : Here
(This is a 1 Single Command)

Done! (and the fonts were back again and usable/readable)

if you want you can lock it so it doesn’t update automatically

How To Lock a Package to the Current Version (Debian only)
To lock a package to the current version follow these steps:
1.Select the package that you want to lock in the package list.
2.Choose Package ▸ Lock Version.

The Synaptic Package Manager will reload the package information. You should now see, that the menu item Package ▸ Lock Version is checked. Furthermore all actions in the menu Package are disabled now.

(*To unlock the package uncheck Package ▸ Lock Version.)

You can give this a try if you are facing similar issue.
this worked for me *maybe it should work on your system also.